I have chosen to analyse the performance of Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty- released in 2003 and directed by Tom Shadyak. I decided to use Jim Carrey because he is a very good actor and is very good at using facial expressions making it easy for the audience to understand how his character is feeling. Bruce Nolan, a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y., is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend Grace. At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God respond. God appears in human form and, endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better.
At the beginning of the scene Jim is looking into the camera with a happy smile on his face, holding a microphone (prop interaction) after this it switches to the news room were his rival tells his joke on the news and makes the crew laugh. When the camera returns to Bruce (Jim) his facial expression has changed to shock and slowly turns to anger, when he starts talking he pretends like nothing is wrong and pretends to make a mistake when me he says "backster" and calls him "backstabber". When Jim starts interviewing the woman who owns the boat he has a very cocky body posture, although he no longer cares, asking questions that have no relevance to the interview he is doing. The camera zooms onto his face while his facial expression turns to almost anger, he continues on to grab the hat he is wearing and crumple it and throw it to the floor. At the end of his scene he sticks his hand up, to show anger, and possibly to be cocky.
